The Fam Roundup: February 2021
February may be the shortest month, but it certainly wasn’t short of #SplitLipFAM publications and awards! Check out all the newest work from our contributors and staff.
Books
K-Ming Chang’s chapbook Bone House is now available for pre-order from Bull City Press
Cortney Lamar Charleston’s collection Doppelgangbanger is now available from Haymarket Books
A new version of Davon Loeb’s memoir The In-Betweens is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press
Kristine Langley Mahler’s debut collection Curing Season is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press
Venita Blackburn’s collection How to Wrestle a Girl is now available for pre-order from Macmillan
Justin Jannise’s book How to be Better by Being Worse is now available for pre-order from BOA Editions
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Hannah Grieco’s piece “After you leave” found a home in Pithead Chapel
Her story “Hand with Blue Triangle” was published in Cotton Xenomorph
Her essay “Food and Covid-19: Release Valve” was published in Entropy
Pithead Chapel also published flash reader Noley Reid’s story “The Hardest Thing”
Assistant print issue editor JJ Peña’s “asking for our uncle’s blood to red” was published in the latest print issue of Five Points Journal
Assistant fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s flash “Big Eyes” appeared in Atticus Review
Her story “The Swaddle” was published in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
K-Ming Chang’s story “Sichuanese Women” found a home in Passages North
Devin Kelly’s essay “Repetitive Stress” was published in Longreads
Megan Giddings’ novel Lakewood was reviewed in Literary Hub
She was profiled about her experience as a debut author during the pandemic in The Lily
jmww published memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s essay “The Last Time I Cried Was in 2015”
Gabrielle Griffis’ piece “Hyphae” appeared in GASHER
Hobart published her story “Plant List”
Sudha Balagopal’s story “Life Times Nine” found a home in matchbook
Her story “Night Flights” was published in Fictive Dream
Meg Pokrass’ piece “Australia” was published in Ghost Parachute
“Adam’s Rib,” her story co-written with Jeff Friedman, appeared in Emrys
Ghost Parachute also published fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson’s story “Out of Season”
Assistant poetry editor Rita Mookerjee reviewed Marlin M. Jenkins’ chapbook Capable Monsters in Pleiades
Two of her poems appeared in The Boiler
Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s essay “Obstinate Love: In Memory of the Great Ved Mehta” was published in Literary Hub
Along with contributing editor Tyrese Coleman, she discussed what it’s like publishing with a small indie press in Catapult
Alina Stefanescu and Cathy Ulrich’s books were both reviewed in Trampset
Cathy Ulrich’s piece “The Children, Waiting for Someone to Fall” was published in The Magnolia Review
Wigleaf published Gina Chung’s story “Mantis”
Rachel Mans McKenny’s piece “Operational Guide for Fruit (Subentry: Grapefruit)” found a home in HAD
Her essay “Why New Fiction is Making Mothers into Monsters” was published in Electric Lit
W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “All the Things That Make Heaven and Earth” was featured on Poetry Daily
Memoir reader Sara Ryan’s “Nesting Material” appeared in the latest print issue of Poetry Northwest
She has work in the current print issue of The Cincinnati Review, along with Martha Silano and Sarah Fawn Montgomery
John Miguel Shakespear’s story “3 x 5 (Birchwood)” appeared in Wigleaf
Cortney Lamar Charleston’s collection Doppelgangbanger received a starred review in Publishers Weekly
He was interviewed in The Rumpus
Claire Hopple’s piece “Don’t Mention It” was published in No Contact
No Contact also published two poems by C.C. Russell
Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s essay “As a Person of Single Experience” found a home in jmww
Three poems by Brian Leung were published in the inaugural issue of Honey Literary
SJ Sindu’s poem “Dominant Genes” also appeared in Honey Literary
Honey Literary also published a review of Davon Loeb’s memoir The In-Betweens
Ilana Masad has work in The Gold Issue of Fairy Tale Review
Ursula Villarreal-Moura interviewed Leesa Cross-Smith in Gulf Coast
K.C. Mead-Brewer’s story “Bone Deep” appeared in Passages North
Tyler Barton’s piece “Seven Postcards from Lancaster” found a home in Juked
Liz Declan’s essay “Listen Along: a Story of Divorce as Told by the Mountain Goats” was published in Michigan Quarterly Review
Josh Denslow reviewed George Saunders’ A Swim in the Pond in the Rain for Washington Independent Review of Books
Kevin Sampsell’s forthcoming book I Made an Accident made an appearance in Poets & Writers’ profile of Clash Books
Ellen Rhudy’s story “The Wife” was published in the latest print issue of Cream City Review
Former editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones’ story “Sara’s Someone” was published in Wigleaf
Passages North published Hussain Ahmed’s poem “Assemblage of Stones for a New Colony”
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Zach Linge have work in the latest print issue of Pleiades
Marcos Gonsalez’s book Pedro’s Theory was reviewed in The New York Times
Memoir reader Christopher Louis Romaguera’s piece “Pleasure Spiked with Pain: A Love Story to Basketball” was published in SFWP Quarterly
Stephanie C. Trott’s story “(No) Vacancy” found a home in The Boiler
Kim Magowan’s piece “The Last Time” appeared in New Flash Fiction Review
New Flash Fiction Review also published Sabrina Hicks’ piece “Scar Tissue”
Flash reader Tammy Heejae Lee’s micro "D&C” appeared in The Offing
Steven Duong’s poem “Best Case Scenario” is in the latest print issue of Indiana Review
Okay Donkey published three micros by Joshua Jones
Awards, Honors, and News
Assistant print issue editor JJ Peña is an inaugural PERIPLUS fellow
K-Ming Chang’s novel Bestiary has been longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Megan Giddings’ novel Lakewood has been nominated in two categories at the NAACP Image Awards
Threa Almontaser and torrin a. greathouse received 2021 NEA Literature Creative Writing Fellow grants
Sudha Balagopal joined Janus Literary as a co-editor
Mary South’s collection You Will Never Be Forgotten is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Mary South’s collectionYou Will Never Be Forgotten and Amber Sparks’ collection And I Do Not Forgive You have been longlisted for The Story Prize
Raven Leilani’s novel Luster is a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Contributing editor Tyrese Coleman was awarded an inaugural “Miss Sarah” Fellowship for Black Women Writers from Trillium Arts
Interviews/Reviews editor Clancy McGilligan successfully defended his PhD dissertation
Nate Marshall and Ivelisse Rodriguez will be faculty at the 2021 Tin House Summer Workshop